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Show TOWNSEND WOULD LEVEL USELESS WALL - i . Favors Reciprocity With Canada; Will Not Harm f '.. Farmers. WASHINGTON, June 27. Defease of the Canadian reciprocity agreement waa ude on the loor of the sessta today to-day by Senator Townaend of Michigan, Michi-gan, insurgent Republican. Not only would be lead hi, aup-j port' to the bill bow under considers-tioa, considers-tioa, the aeaator declared, he would have a treaty which . would . have included in-cluded all of the producta of Canada and the United State, industries sa the free list. He woald vet for the measure ia its. present form ma "aa agreement to begin taking dews the uaeleas wall between parte of the same iadustrial Aeld." For the purpose of increasing the benefite which he held would (low from the agreement. Senator Townaend proposed aa amendment to the bill providing pro-viding that the president should try to form aa agreement with Canada looking look-ing to the improvement of the St. Lawrence civer from the great lakes to the Atlantic The farmer had nothing to fear from the agreement, the speaker contended. "It cannot barm the farmers," he declared. de-clared. "It ia the beginning of a policy pol-icy which I have long favored, via.: a change of tariff conditiona in conformity confor-mity with the weU understood theory of protection. Aa fast aa the faeta can be obtained the tariff achedulea ahould be revised, and a scientific system of duties established. estab-lished. I want the wool, cotton, steel and other schedules revised if s determination deter-mination of facta discloses that revision revi-sion ia needed. I will not, however, proceed blindly in the matter." |